Last week, I finally broke down and purchased the
development tools for the Cyngal line of micro
controllers. They are based on an 8051 core. I was
pleasantly surprised. As it turned out, it is by far one
of the best development environments I have seen in a micro
controller. This processor sports bookoo I/O and 25 mips
to boot. In July of this year they are releasing a 100
mips version! Can't wait :)_ It's a 3V part, which is well
suited to battery-powered applications. The first thing I
made using this new processor was a 32-channel servo
controller, it was plenty fast enough to get full 8-bit
resolution on all 32 servos!

If you're in the market for something with a bit more power
and flexibility than a PIC, you can get all the information
and order the parts as well from www.cygnal.com